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211204 The First Rock and Roll Song Including Fay Simmons, Freddy Fender, and Musicians From Outside the US
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Fay Simmons
Every show we explore the endless examples of rock and roll music from before Elvis and from unexplored locations. This radio show presents the te...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 03:56:16
  • Purchases: 6
211127 The First Rock and Roll Song!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Edgar Blanchard
Scratching through another corner of my endless musical library - songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. All of which could...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
211120 The First Rock and Roll Song!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Cats and the Fiddle
There is a belief that the first rock and roll song was centered around Elvis but in the post World War II era there was a new music with so many s...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
211114 Jamie's Boring Traits
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The billiard ball removal saw. (Cut 'em in half and spit 'em out.)
While listing all his boring traits, Jamie tries to demonstrate a "cool trick" but gets a billiard ball stuck in his mouth. He performs an billiar...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
211106 The 500th Show of First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Earthquakes
Starting with music from outer space because that's what was considered the origination of the first rock and roll song. In its time it was as ali...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5
211010 The First Rock and Roll Record - Louisiana
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The first rock and roll song is centered in the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and ar...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:26
  • Purchases: 7
211024 Music of South Louisiana and the First Rock and Roll Song(s)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Shake Spears
There are endless examples of rock and roll music from before Elvis, The Beatles, or whoever else has the title of "first rock and roll song." Thi...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:29
  • Purchases: 5
2111010 Outer Space songs and the Band Box and Quality Record Companies
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A focus on the Denver and Toronto regional record companies of Band Box and Quality plus a long segment on "music from outer space" based on the in...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 03:46:26
  • Purchases: 6
211007 Short Intense Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Songs that are only between 90 and 100 seconds are the communications professor's dream of - "the direct, active voice." No lengthy introduction o...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:11:25
  • Purchases: 4
211002 Something Wistful and Poetic Plus the First Rock and Roll Song(s)
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Supersecos
After a hurricane reminds you that only a veneer of safety keeps you alive, it's easy to get wistful about what is important. It's not the posses...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 04:47:45
  • Purchases: 5
210925 The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Universals
Scratching through another corner of my endless musical library - I found a great deal of songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 03:56:06
  • Purchases: 5
210918 Little Ray Jimenez and the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little Ray
Little Ray was a Los Angeles sensation because he could command a stage and audience - a talent that stood out even in a city full of entertainers....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:14
  • Purchases: 4
210911 The First Rock and Roll Song - J & S Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Featuring the music from J&S records, a record company started by a Black woman in 1956, Zell Sanders. Also couplets of sound-alike songs. Two un...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 5
210904 The Quest to Find The First Rock And Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: 4 Pennies
The first rock and roll music arguably was centered in the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 4
210828 The Gravity Test and The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. The first music w...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:06
  • Purchases: 4
210822 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Searching for the first rock and roll record, means finding tens of thousands of records that could legitimately be the "first record," I think t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KPRG, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 4
210731 Listening To Chuck Weiss In The Mushroom Factory
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little June and the Januaries
Picking mushrooms in the factory was dark, dismal, and without a future. The only light came from the radio where in 1973, Chuck E. Weiss would pl...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:15
  • Purchases: 3
210724 Music From the Louisiana Bayous - The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Dazzlers
The bayous of South Louisiana were virtually isolated from the US by its watery jungles of bayous so we developed differently than the rest of the ...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:51
  • Purchases: 5
210417 Atomic Bomb and Jazz Songs = First Rock and Roll Songs
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bobby Byrd and the Flames
Searching for the first rock and roll record leads us to country and western songs about the atom bomb and jazz. Mix them together and you get the...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 5
210710 Searching for the First Rock and Roll Song.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Collegians
Vocal groups and a set of lyrics about Romance Without Finance.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:12
  • Purchases: 6
210621 Cuca, Swastika, and Delta Records, The Sick Sound, Chicano Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Brenton Wood and Wendel Williams
Musical riffing off Greg Adams writings on his Weird Music website. Greg Adams wrote for the All-Music Guide for 10 years and has written liner no...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 02:55:30
  • Purchases: 4
210619 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Billy Mcallister
Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. The first music w...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KFCF FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:56:42
  • Purchases: 5
210612 The First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Piece image
Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. The first music ...

Bought by KCHU, KPRG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 5
210605 First Rock and Roll Record
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Groovy Joe Poovey
Music from the post World War II era when a new music captured the imagination and hope of people in the US and around the world. At first it wasn...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:11
  • Purchases: 6
210530 The First Rock and Roll Record - An Hour of Lyrics Using Numbers
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sugar Pie and Pee Wee
Music from the post WWII era when a new music caught fire in the US and around the world. At first it wasn't called rock and roll, it was just "ho...

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:04
  • Purchases: 5